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The Performance Horse Sale Company of Denver was managing
the sale. He didn’t feel good about it then, and he still didn’t feel
good about it. No one from the ranch had said a word about it, and
when he drove out to the ranch to ask, no one had much to say. He
still hadn’t gotten over the way he had been so easily dismissed
after all of those years.
Joel continued to drive as if he was floating down the highway
in the old Ford on the way to dinner with Cindy. He was once
again feeling like a kid. He couldn’t remember the last time he
felt so good about things. This was the first time in a lot of years
that he was living a life of love. On the great highway of life, Joel
recognized that there was the path of love and the path of fear.
And, without a doubt, far too much of his life had been all about
fear. The fear of having a relationship with a woman and being
abandoned like the way his first wife had left him so many years
earlier, the fear of losing his daughter, and the fear of being found
out at work and people realizing that maybe he didn’t know as
much as they thought he did. Now, he was spending far more
time on the path of love. He loved what he was doing with the
horses. He loved the people in his life. He even was starting to
like himself a little better. And it felt good. Real good.
During his troubled years, Joel had been looking for a new path
to a better life. He was always looking for something more. He
wondered why he could never find it. And now, here it was. It
really wasn’t a path leading somewhere else, but it had been deep
inside him all along. He was reaching deep inside and finding
what he had been missing. He was learning that it wasn’t just
that life rewarded action, but it rewarded the right actions.
It took him a while to find Cindy’s house, but when he did, he
wasn’t surprised. Everything in the yard was neat and tidy and
the house looked well cared for. It was located on a quiet street on
the outskirts of town, he guessed she had chosen it as a good
place for little Lila to grow up, away from the traffic of downtown
Great Falls and nowhere near the highway. Joel parked the Ford
on the road and walked to the front door.
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